The Chathams sit roughly 785 kilometers (488 miles) east of mainland New Zealand and have long been a crucible of endemic ...

About 95 million years ago, a juvenile crocodyliform nicknamed Elton lived in what is now southwest Montana at the edge of the Western Interior Seaway. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

Chen thought that the remains looked more like an avian species, so he looped in Lida Xing, a paleontologist at China University of Geosciences who specializes in Cretaceous birds. Why did this ...

A fossil skull from a long-extinct animal captivated the public when it went on display at the South Australian Museum. Nicknamed the “crowned crocodile”, its debut coincided with the publication of a ...

Animals often swallow stones called gastroliths to help grind food. But none of the thousands of similar fossil birds have ever been found with swallowed stones.

A version of the dodo bird (Raphus cucullatus) could make a return someday soon. Colossal Biosciences announced this week several milestones in its quest to bring the extinct species back to life. On ...